7 Interesting and Entertaining Facts about Health & Hygiene

Maintaining good hygiene helps in dealing with a lot of health as well as grooming issues. From washing your hands correctly to understanding the cleaning frequency around the house, life is pretty good when hygiene is your top priority. 

There’s no other way to share the importance of good hygiene than in the form of exciting and entertaining facts that will surely surprise you enough to rethink your hygiene habits. 

With countless germs, bacteria, and viruses on the loose, coming in contact with them is easy. Therefore, we want to make sure you are safe and protected from any illness that might be a product of such pathogens. 

Take a look at these 7 facts that will reveal the importance of practicing good hygiene. 

   1. Every 30 minutes!

On average, every 30 minutes, you come into contact with 840,000 germs. A fact that reiterates the importance of personal hygiene to avoid contracting unwanted germs. 

The best and most effective hygiene practice you can adopt is to wash your hands with anti-bacterial soap, or liquid hand wash for at least 20 seconds and about 8-12 times per day. 

   2. Fastest reproduction

Bacteria is one of the fastest reproducing organism, with a doubling rate of 4 to 20 minutes. A single germ pathogen can multiply into more than 8 million germs per day. 

So take some responsibility and play your role in preventing various diseases by stopping their reproduction using good hygiene. 

   3. Five-second rule 

Always remember there’s no such thing as the “five-second rule.” For example, if you have dropped any food item on the ground, bacteria and germs will not wait for five seconds before contaminating it. 

You must avoid eating food off the ground at all costs. Even after cleaning your floors using a disinfectant cleaner, bacteria will always find a way to contaminate them through various means, such as dirty outdoor shoes. 

   4. Be careful when buying food

70% of all foodborne illnesses, such as food poisoning, are caused due to poor and unhygienic food service operations. 

You cannot trust every food source you purchase your food from because there will always be a strong likelihood of any human error related to food contamination during production. 

Establishments involved in the food service businesses can minimize contamination by just following effective food safety and hygiene practices.

Here are some crucial food hygiene tips that you should live by to prevent food poisoning and other foodborne illnesses. 

   5. TV remote is more dangerous than you think

The TV remote control plays an active role in about 90,000 annual deaths by transferring various infections acquired in hospitals. 

According to research, they also spread antibiotic-resistance Staphylococcus, the worst carrier of bacteria. 

Just imagine how many diseases you can prevent by cleaning and disinfecting objects, such as TV remotes, doorknobs, handles, and electronic items, using either a disinfectant surface spray or wiping them with an anti-bacterial liquid.  

   6. What’s cleaner, office desk or toilet seat?

According to research, about 10 million bacteria live on an unclean and un-sanitized office desk. It is probably more hygienic for you to work from the toilet seat. Shocking, right? 

Regularly clean your office desk with a disinfectant surface spray or an anti-bacterial multi-use wipe for fast, easy, and simple disinfection. 

   7. Start taking the stairs!

Elevator buttons are as deadly an as a toilet seat when transferring germs that can cause severe diseases. 

Avoid too much elevator use or keep a hand sanitizer with you to use immediately after you leave the elevator.